You feel crushed and smothered.

Gaslighting and ghosting. “meeting a person through a dating app and experiencing them as loving and kind, and then being. You know, there are lots of new concepts in the lexicon of life. Sporadic messages are the first sign of breadcrumbing.

Ghosting is akin to gaslighting because it’s a denial, a charade. Ghosting is another behavior that often gets misconstrued as gaslighting. It was expected that the unholy trinity of modern dating:

How putting a name to a bad behavior can help you heal putting a name to someone's actions helps us understand what happened, move past it. A slow fade happens over time, and involves one person in the relationship slowly pulling. And it rejects the worthiness of another human being and the impact of the exchange that may have happened.

If ghosting is an abrupt end to a relationship, a slow fade is death by a thousand cuts. Have the confidence to trust your gut instincts. Gaslighting by definition, is a psychological term and:

Make use of your intuition. “anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. If your intuition is telling you something is up, something is up.

It is done slowly, so. The only way you can describe how you feel is that you feel minimized. Gaslighting is used to manipulate people because of their race, gender identity, age, mental instability, or physical or emotional vulnerability.